The Economic Legacy of Expulsion
Lessons from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9707935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick A Testa (Tulane University), Patrick Testa (0000-0002-1355-6417, Tulane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 637 |
| Pages | 2233-2271 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ej/ueaa132 |
| OpenAlex | W3123678340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 59 |
This article examines the long-run effects of forced migration on economic development in the origin economy, using Czechoslovakia’s expulsion of three million Germans after WWII. For identification, I use the discontinuity in ethnic composition at the border of the Sudetenland region where Germans lived. Germans had similar characteristics to Czechs, bypassing factors driving effects in other cases of forced migration, such as differences in human capital. The expulsion produced persistent disparities in population density, sector composition and educational attainment. I trace effects to selective initial resettlements and capital extraction following the expulsion, culminating in urban decay and human capital decline
Capital (architecture · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Educational attainment · Emigration · Ethnic composition · Ethnic group · Forced migration · Geography · Human capital · Human migration · Industrialisation · Internal migration · Market economy · Political science · Population · Refugee · Sociology · World War II · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics
The Czech Republic
The Czech Republic
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Forced displacement in history
Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes
Migration and Knowledge Diffusion
Shared language as a scarce resource
Measuring and mapping the existence of phantom borders at a local scale
Voting under debtor distress
The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration
Forced migration and local economic development
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–2020
The forces of path dependence
Leaving the “Fourth Shore”
Identifying culture as cause
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies
Mobilizing and Balancing Differences
Budweisers into Czechs and Germans
Social Structure and Development
The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy
Bones, Bombs, and Break Points
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Culture and Institutions
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Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push
Chapter 48 Micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies
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Temperatures and cyclones strongly associated with economic production in the Caribbean and Central America
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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
Barbed Wire
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology
The Costs of Remoteness
Portage and Path Dependence
Reversal of Fortune
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Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics
The Economics of Forced Migration
Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe
Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands
Banks and Development
Crime and Immigration
The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries
History and Industry Location
Forced Migration and Human Capital
The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms
Neville Chamberlain, the British official mind and the Munich crisis
Jewish communities and city growth in preindustrial Europe
Czechoslovak planning 1945–48
Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters
The Regional Aspect of Post-Communist Transformation in the Czech Republic
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
A Nation of Immigrants
Quality Matters
Unsettled Landscapes
The Struggle on the Czech-German Language Border, 1880–1940
Migration, Population Composition and Long Run Economic Development
Economic Dynamics in the Malthusian Era
The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants
Second‐Degree Moral Hazard in a Real‐World Credence Goods Market
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Consequences of forced migration
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Either German or Czech
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |